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Originally Posted by Fazzu  Perhaps,it means "was given award". |
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"credit" means "
acknowledgement, recognition, or praise"
Consider the following examples:
Employee complaining to his friend:
I did all the work on the project, but my boss got all the credit.
That means, people thought that his boss had done the project himself,
or that they gave him recognition, or praised him for the project
and the employee who had done the real work was not mentioned or
acknowledged.
If you read any research papers, you can see that in some of them,
the professor's name is mentioned as a co-author, along with the
student researcher. In this case, the student and the professor
are
sharing credit for the research paper. Or, you can
say they got
"joint credit" for the research paper.
In case of Matilda's sentence, it means Abner Doubleday was recognized
as having invented whatever he invented (the sentence does not
tell us about it). Most likely it refers to baseball.